Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating an IPlan and reviewing the IPlan of a peer is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.
Complete the form based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give.
Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement
Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
What is the need?
How will improvement help your students?
How will improvement help your school?
RIBT Standard/Element Addressed?
1.
I need to strengthen my classroom management skills.
The class will be more structured and there will be less wasted time.
The students will begin to have better classroom behaviors. One of the problems from the school is that the students have varying behaviors.
RIBT #6
2.
3.
4.
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
measurable/observable
should lead to improvement of teaching, student achievement, and/or improvement of learning environment.
should describe new knowledge or skills that you will acquire and how that knowledge/skill will affect the school/district setting.
linked to applicable Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards and elements, e.g. RIBTS 2.4.
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
My professional development goal is to strengthen my classroom management skills. I am hoping that through this my classes become better behaved and the transitions between activities become smoother. Transitioning between activities is something that can be very difficult at times especially when the students don't want to do another activity. If I am able to strengthen my classroom management skills it will help me as a teacher to work on smoother transitions. Through the classroom management skills that I will strengthen I will be able to teach more material in each class because less time will be wasted in transitions and my students will feel that they are in a safer learning environment.
Classroom management is essential to having a productive and safe classroom. I feel that this is a great way to increase the productivity of my students. The students will misbehave less and this will transition into better classroom behaviors and academic success throughout my class and the school. I feel that by strengthening my classroom management skills it will make me a better teacher because right now I lack some of the skills needed to teach a class efficiently. I think that I tend to be too lenient with my students and I need to be more strict so that I have better control of my classroom. I believe that I am a fair teacher but can work on my classroom management.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
I will attend teaching workshops on classroom management skills. These workshops will give me many different ideas of how to maintain a safe classroom learning environment. The workshops will discuss many ways that I could use to help me learn how to make easier transitions into new activities so that less time is wasted. I will also learn many ways to discipline the class and come up with reasonable classroom rules and what to do when the rules are broken. Through these workshops I will be able to get a lot of ideas which I can try out and see which ones work best for me in my classroom.
I will also talk to different teachers in different meetings such as our department meetings and observe different classrooms. Through talking to other teachers and observing I will be able to see what classroom management techniques seem to be useful for certain students and teachers. Most of the teachers have been teaching for years so hearing their perspectives on classroom management will help me to get a better idea about classroom management strategies. This will give me a good idea of what methods work best with the students and will help me to improve my teaching. I will learn many different techniques that I can try out and figure out which methods work best for me.
Print your PD plan to PDF
Post your PD Plan to True Outcomes
Return to True Outcomes to evaluate a peer's plan the following week.
EDC 484 IPlan Peer Evaluation
Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating an IPlan and reviewing the IPlan of a peer is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
My professional development goal is to strengthen my classroom management skills. I am hoping that through this my classes become better behaved and the transitions between activities become smoother. Transitioning between activities is something that can be very difficult at times especially when the students don't want to do another activity. If I am able to strengthen my classroom management skills it will help me as a teacher to work on smoother transitions. Through the classroom management skills that I will strengthen I will be able to teach more material in each class because less time will be wasted in transitions and my students will feel that they are in a safer learning environment.
Classroom management is essential to having a productive and safe classroom. I feel that this is a great way to increase the productivity of my students. The students will misbehave less and this will transition into better classroom behaviors and academic success throughout my class and the school. I feel that by strengthening my classroom management skills it will make me a better teacher because right now I lack some of the skills needed to teach a class efficiently. I think that I tend to be too lenient with my students and I need to be more strict so that I have better control of my classroom. I believe that I am a fair teacher but can work on my classroom management.
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
I will attend teaching workshops on classroom management skills. These workshops will give me many different ideas of how to maintain a safe classroom learning environment. The workshops will discuss many ways that I could use to help me learn how to make easier transitions into new activities so that less time is wasted. I will also learn many ways to discipline the class and come up with reasonable classroom rules and what to do when the rules are broken. Through these workshops I will be able to get a lot of ideas which I can try out and see which ones work best for me in my classroom.
I will also talk to different teachers in different meetings such as our department meetings and observe different classrooms. Through talking to other teachers and observing I will be able to see what classroom management techniques seem to be useful for certain students and teachers. Most of the teachers have been teaching for years so hearing their perspectives on classroom management will help me to get a better idea about classroom management strategies. This will give me a good idea of what methods work best with the students and will help me to improve my teaching. I will learn many different techniques that I can try out and figure out which methods work best for me.